Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory

2015-01-22 Social Science

Author : Nathan Goodale
Release : 2015-01-22
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory by : Nathan Goodale

Download or read book Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory written by Nathan Goodale. This book was released on 2015-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone tool analysis relies on a strong background in analytical and methodological techniques. However, lithic technological analysis has not been well integrated with a theoretically informed approach to understanding how humans procured, made, and used stone tools. Evolutionary theory has great potential to fill this gap. This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a by-product of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, risk management, macroevolution, dual inheritance theory, cladistics, central place foraging, costly signaling, selection, drift, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.

Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory

2015-01-22 Nature

Author : Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting
Release : 2015-01-22
Genre : Nature
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Download or read book Lithic Technological Systems and Evolutionary Theory written by Society for American Archaeology. Annual Meeting. This book was released on 2015-01-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays brings together several different evolutionary perspectives to demonstrate how lithic technological systems are a byproduct of human behavior. The essays cover a range of topics, including human behavioral ecology, cultural transmission, phylogenetic analysis, macroevolution, and various applications of evolutionary ecology.

Lithic Technology

2008-09-01 Social Science

Author : William Andrefsky, Jr
Release : 2008-09-01
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Lithic Technology written by William Andrefsky, Jr. This book was released on 2008-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life history of stone tools is intimately liked to tool production, use, and maintenance. These are important processes in the organization of lithic technology or the manner in which lithic technology is embedded within human organizational strategies of land use and subsistence practices. This volume brings together essays that measure the life history of stone tools relative to retouch values, raw material constraints, and evolutionary processes. Collectively, they explore the association of technological organization with facets of tool form such as reduction sequences, tool production effort, artifact curation processes, and retouch measurement. Data sets cover a broad geographic and temporal span, including examples from France during the Paleolithic, the Near East during the Neolithic, and other regions such as Mongolia, Australia, and Italy. North American examples are derived from Paleoindian times to historic period aboriginal populations throughout the United States and Canada.

Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change

2017-11-06 Social Science

Author : Erick Robinson
Release : 2017-11-06
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Lithic Technological Organization and Paleoenvironmental Change written by Erick Robinson. This book was released on 2017-11-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this edited volume is to bring together a diverse set of analyses to document how small-scale societies responded to paleoenvironmental change based on the evidence of their lithic technologies. The contributions bring together an international forum for interpreting changes in technological organization - embracing a wide range of time periods, geographic regions and methodological approaches. As technology brings more refined information on ancient climates, the research on spatial and temporal variability of paleoenvironmental changes. In turn, this has also broadened considerations of the many ways that prehistoric hunter-gatherers may have responded to fluctuations in resource bases. From an archaeological perspective, stone tools and their associated debitage provide clues to understanding these past choices and decisions, and help to further the investigation into how variable human responses may have been. Despite significant advances in the theory and methodology of lithic technological analysis, there have been few attempts to link these developments to paleoenvironmental research on a global scale.

Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology

2019-06-03 Social Science

Author : Anna Marie Prentiss
Release : 2019-06-03
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Handbook of Evolutionary Research in Archaeology written by Anna Marie Prentiss. This book was released on 2019-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolutionary Research in Archaeology seeks to provide a comprehensive overview of contemporary evolutionary research in archaeology. The book will provide a single source for introduction and overview of basic and advanced evolutionary concepts and research programs in archaeology. Content will be organized around four areas of critical research including microevolutionary and macroevolutionary process, human ecology studies (evolutionary ecology, demography, and niche construction), and evolutionary cognitive archaeology. Authors of individual chapters will address theoretical foundations, history of research, contemporary contributions and debates, and implications for the future for their respective topics. As appropriate, authors present or discuss short empirical case studies to illustrate key arguments.

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